What the heck is this?

[MrLegsGuy]

I've been an EMT about a year doing volunteer on a rescue and I've never seen anything like this lol. Am I just stupid? It looks to me like roller gauze wrapped with tape? Does it unroll?

I got it from my grandpa's first aid kit my grandma gave me after he died, and I just went throigh it to find this.

Man, the answer is surely gonna make me feel dumb I bet

 

[STXmedic]

Packaged roller gauze?....

 

[DesertMedic66]

Old school tampon

 

[MrLegsGuy]

It looks exactly like that webbed roller gauze kinda transparent stuff, but rolled into a little cylinder made of what feels like either old body tape or maybe card stock?? Lol was my grandpa just super inventive?
Wish I could ask him

And as for the tampon... I feel mighty sorry for the cats back in that day

 

[Qulevrius]

It's an old school field dressing. The packaging is parchment-like paper, and the bandage roll is inside.

 

[MrLegsGuy]

It's an old school field dressing. The packaging is parchment-like paper, and the bandage roll is inside.

So you're saying, If I were to ever need roller gauze I just tear this baby open like a christmas present and get to work? Or submit this thing to a museum and buy myself a newer roll?

 

[Qulevrius]

So you're saying, If I were to ever need roller gauze I just tear this baby open like a christmas present and get to work? Or submit this thing to a museum and buy myself a newer roll?

What I'm saying is that field dressing is at least twice as old as you are...

 

[MrLegsGuy]

What I'm saying is that field dressing is at least twice as old as you are...

Thanks so much for the insight, I'd have never been able to figure that our on my own.
I don't think I could bring myself to use it then, probably put it with the rest of my collectibles